Anthologies One And Two RevisitedBy Terry McCarty

Very early poems written between 1997 and 2001 which originally were part of the chapbooks Anthology One and Anthology Two.

REPRIMANDED EMPLOYEE

I stand, paralyzed,
as I, along with the rest of the office,
listen to you,
with your red voice and loud face,
as you proceed to call me incompetent and accuse me of
costing the company TIME.
And, of course,
TIME is MONEY.

I stand, paralyzed,
enduring your angry lecture,
reminding myself that
I literally cannot afford to respond.
Instead, I wait for you to finish
so I can go back to work
and waste no more TIME.